Central Asia Institute
Central Asia Institute (CAI) is a non-profit organization to promote and provide community-based education and literacy programs, especially for girls, in remote mountain regions of Central Asia.
Central Asia Institute's achievements include:
- 55 schools, mostly for girls, in Pakistan and Afghanistan
- 547 fully or partially supported teachers
- Education for over 24,000 students, including 14,000 girls.
- Temporary education for victims of Pakistan's October 2005 7.8 Richter scale earthquake, that killed 74,000 people, including 18,000 students and displaced 2.8 million refugees.
A few additional projects are in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan.
CAI was co-founded by Jean Hoerni and Greg Mortenson in 1996. The headquarters of CAI are located in Bozeman, Montana.